Geoffrey D. Beecher
Mid-Atlantic sales manager
Focal Therapeutics
Expertise: Medical devices
The VCU Commercialization Advisory Board includes industry experts, early-stage investors and entrepreneurs who provide guidance and recommendations for critical commercialization and investment decisions.
The board reviews technologies and judges inventors’ presentations based on various factors, including patentability, stage of development, unmet market need, industry feedback and societal impact.
Mid-Atlantic sales manager
Focal Therapeutics
Expertise: Medical devices
Senior Life Sciences Strategist
BioHealth Innovation
Expertise: Non-dilutive funding and market research
President (retired)
Evonic USA
Expertise: Material sciences & specialty chemicals
Research and development director (retired)
DuPont
Expertise: Industrial chemistry
Investment director
CIT Gap Fund
Expertise: Life sciences
Managing partner
SPARK Product Development LLC
Expertise: Product design & design for manufacturing
President
InnovateTech Ventures
Expertise: University Commercialization Startups
Founding executive director
Charlottesville Angel Network
Expertise: Technology innovation, entrepreneurship, and early stage investments
Founder
VArtisans
Expertise: Virtual reality & film industry
Founder
SingleStone
Expertise: Software
VP, Commercialization
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Expertise: Technology startups, early stage investing
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, JHU
BioHealth Innovation
Expertise: Biotechnology and diagnostics
Principle scientist (retired)
AstraZeneca
Expertise: Pharma & cardiovascular drug development
Director, University Programs
Virginia Innovation Partnership Corporation
Expertise: Technology Commercialization, Early Stage Investment
Associate
Epidarex Capital
Expertise: Life sciences
CEO
Virginia Bio
Expertise: Life sciences, patent law, and government
Partner
Nixon Gwilt Law
Partner
Hutchison PLLC
Expertise: Life Sciences
VP - Entrepreneurship
Activation Capital
Expertise: Business of Science
Chief Research and Development Officer
Grenova
Expertise: Medical devices
Independent Advisor to Entrepreneurial Ventures
Professor of Entrepreneurship, Panamerican University Colleges of Business and Engineering
Expertise: Biotechnology (biologic drugs and medical devices)
Director, Strategy and Innovation
RTI Innovation Advisors
Expertise: Technology commercialization & market strategy
Director
Life Science Management
Expertise: Pharma & serial entrepreneurship
VP and general manager (retired)
DuPont
Expertise: Chemical industry
Private Investor
Expertise: Start-ups, angel and VC investments
Advanced analytics solution lead
SingleStone
Expertise: Big data & data science